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news from yesterday when we had the release of 189 servicemen who defended mariupol, azovstal, the chernobylariupol. so these two events are something that keeps ukrainians very much positive till the end of 2024 and looking beyond for 2025. vladimir putin has sent a new year message. it's playing out through the different time zones in russia. he did pay tribute to russian soldiers fighting in the war, describing them as true heroes, but he did not refer in detail to the state of the conflict. what does the early part of 2025 look like to you? first of all, and very much important, how much we're going to be equipped. and that's why the news of yesterday, and we're hoping also at the beginning of 2025, about the american aid and specifically military aid was something that is helping us to stay online and to stay, let's say, on the ground firmly. and this assistance package, which helped us with, with the amount of $2.5 billion, comes as we ukrainian experts say quite lately. but at least it comes for a moment, and it hopes that we will be stable for a moment to keep what we say winter mont

he became known as the amazon chernobyl., instead it waged a legal campaign to discredit donziger, including filing a civil suit accusing him of violating ak tearing laws. ultimately a judge ruled in chevron's favor and donziger was convicted in 2021 of a misdemeanor contempt of court charge. 68 nobel laureates and a group of human rights organizations have denounced donziger's contempt conviction. his allies including greenpeace warn that the conviction sets a dangerous precedent and could have a chilling effect on the broader environmental justice movement. this week's history clemency announcement comes after biden faced criticism for issuing a sweeping pardon to his son hunter biden who was convicted earlier this year of gun and tax crimes. biden has previously issued categorical pardons for some individuals convicted under federal marijuana laws as well as lgbtq+ service members who were discharged because of their sexual orientation, but advocates including my next guest are urging the president to do more. for his par

with tourists from around the world paying to see the chernobyl location and the world trade center.l of the tour bringing tourists to the morbid site. >> there was a lot of legal activity going on there, human rights allegations. the conditions were reprehensible. people would prefer not to remember it. >> reporter: guad venegas, nbc news. >>> doctors in minnesota are crediting a new virtual reality program with helping them on a difficult case. a baby born with a heart tumor larger than any had ever seen. our minneapolis station shows us how it works. >> reporter: don't be cooled by jaden'sdemeanor. he has the heart of a fighter. >> he's our little warrior. >> reporter: it's something his mom discovered when she was 29 weeks into her pregnancy when one day she couldn't feel jaden move. >> we went to the movies. i did what they call a sweet test. i ate some candy and had some pop and laid back in the recliner seats. i still didn't feel him move. i told eddie take me to the hospital. >> reporter: the severe swelling doctors quickly discovered on this 3d ultrasound was a symptom of th

kennedy on c-span's washington chernobyl he discussed his book crimes against nature.

. >> when chernobyl happened, people sold mcdonald's. buy mcdonald's. >> buy mcdonald's if what happens? >> i'm saying they don't care. they buy wendy's. >> maybe not. >> guys, another fascinating story that doesn't have a huge stock market impact, although there are public companies involved. >> murdoch? >> yes, the murdoch family trust. it is worthy of the screen, but it's already been done a. a show called "succession." it's amazing. they wrote the script prior to it. but there was an important case, it was heard this summer. it involved what is now a failed bid, though it will be appealed, to change the murdoch family truts so that essentially of lachlan murdoch will have control when his father passes away or prior to the expiration of the trust itself which is in 2030. why, because his sib religions, three of his siblings, anyhow, has equal control that he does. right now, he controls the trust. he has four trustees, all of it through a delaware company called cruden. but that would go away pb there was an opportunity or a chance t

kennedy on c-span's washington chernobyl he discussed his book crimes against nature. >> "washingtonournal" continues. >> on your screen is robert f kennedy jr. he's the author of this book crimes against nature. george w. bush and his corporate pals are plundering the country and hijacking our democracy. mr. kennedy a rather strong title. >> i think it is accurate. i've been disciplined over 20 years as an environmental advocateip about being nonpartin and bipartisan in my approach to these issues i don't think there's any such thing as republican children arere democratic children. the worst thing thatng can happn to the environment as it becomes a providences single political party. we cannot speak honestly about the environment in any context without speaking critically of this president. if you go to the website natural resources defense council which is one of the groups i work for, you will see over 400 major environmental rollbacks thatom have been promoted by this administration over the last three and half years as part of a concerted t deliberative attet to eviscerate 30 y